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Example sentences for "the thoughts"

  • At this I appeared very angry, expressed my abhorrence of it, made as if I would vomit at the thoughts of it, and beckoned with my hand to him to come away, which he did immediately, with great submission.

  • Molly's heart leaped up at the thoughts of stopping at home, even though the next moment she had to blame herself for rejoicing at a reprieve that was purchased by another's suffering.

  • Molly could not follow Cynthia's ideas; she could not distract herself from the thoughts of the sorrowing group at the Hall.

  • When he was gone, Molly felt so light-hearted at the thoughts of Thursday that she could hardly attend to what the Miss Brownings were saying.

  • You are ambitious of introducing your book into every writing and reading-chamber in Edinburgh, and yet you take fire at the thoughts of its being criticised by Mr. Fairscribe's young people?

  • The silence and death of Moncada broke my plans, and it was then only I reconciled myself to the thoughts of India.

  • Is it possible that the bold adventurer can fix his thoughts on you, and still be dejected at the thoughts that a bonny blue-eyed lass looked favourably on a less lucky fellow than himself?

  • I rejoice at the thoughts of conversing with you, for then you will first comprehend how my matters stand here.

  • I rejoice at the thoughts of a new lodging.

  • Molk that I rejoice at the thoughts of Salzburg, in the hope that I may again receive the same kind of present for the minuets which was bestowed on me at a similar concert.

  • For come to God they dare not; the thoughts of that eternal Majesty strike them through.

  • The Lord keep them in every imagination of the thoughts of thy heart for ever, and incline thine heart to seek him more and more.

  • Art thou in thine own thoughts, or in the thoughts of others, of these last small ones, small in grace, small in gifts, small in esteem upon this account?

  • How the old Duchess of Lorrain will shiver in her coffin at the thoughts of it?

  • Could you like," she wrote to him not long ago, "the thoughts of a little sea change here?

  • These peculiarities and differences neither do, nor (generally speaking)could intermingle with the texture of the thoughts so as to modify their force or their direction.

  • It was the attitude of her prostrate country, crying night and day for purification from blood, and not from feudal oppression, that swallowed up the thoughts of the impassioned girl.

  • The female mind is quick, and almost gifted with the power of witchcraft, to decipher what is passing in the thoughts of familiar companions.

  • But the truth is, I am neither so whole for the former, nor yet against the latter, as I am, I believe, generally voted in the thoughts of men to be.

  • And chiefly Perpenna, elevated by the thoughts of his noble birth, and carried away with a fond ambition of commanding the army, threw out villainous discourses in private amongst his acquaintance.

  • Upon these and worse words, Lucullus gave up the thoughts of invading Parthia, and in the height of summertime, went against Tigranes.

  • These tidings produced a change as universal as it was extraordinary in the thoughts inclinations of the people, but occasioned a yet stranger revulsion of feeling among the patricians.

  • The transfer of the thoughts of one erring mind to another, Science renders impossible.

  • Margaret had felt the evening long and lonely; and was all but giving up the thoughts of Jem's coming that night, when she heard his step at the door.

  • She was losing sight of the familiar objects of her childhood for the first time; and unpleasant as those objects are to most, she yearned after them with some of the same sentiment which gives pathos to the thoughts of the emigrant.

  • He was very restless all night long," said Jem, reluctantly returning to the thoughts of that time.

  • I do not allude, of course, to the thoughts, and feelings of the hero.

  • I did, tolerably; and subsequent conversations with him fixed the thoughts sufficiently in my mind, to make me pretty sure that I am giving a faithful verbal transcript of them.

  • There is a melancholy harmony in them that is charming, and a delicacy in the thoughts that no Scotchman is capable of, though a Scotchwoman(1302 might inspire it.

  • Whenever I am displeased here, the thoughts of that journey are my resource; just as cross would-be devout people, when they have quarrelled with this world, begin packing up for the other.

  • It is in imitation of the Regent's style, and has miscarried in nothing but the language, the thoughts, and the poetry.

  • Sir Robert published a pamphlet against the bill, entitled, "The Thoughts of a Member of the Lower House, in relation to a project for restraining and limiting the powers of the Crown in the future creation of Peers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chemical process; the door; the father; the legislature; the seas; the side; the supreme; the tent; the tenth; the third; thee from; then cover; then drain; then dried; then governor; then looking; then plane; then remove from the; then stopped; thence south; there appeared; there the; these cases; these little; these men; these points